Posted on 08/03/2016 6:56:50 AM PDT by JoeProBono
SYDNEY, - Atheists in Australia have been urged not to register "Jedi" as their religion to prevent results from a national census from being skewed to make the country appear more religious.
The Atheist Foundation of Australia shared a Facebook post, featuring cartoons of members of the fictional religion from the Star Wars films, discouraging Australians from marking their religion as "Jedi" or other "joke religions."
"If old religious men in robes don't represent you...don't mark yourself as 'Jedi,'" the post read.
According to the foundation, registering as "Jedi" or other joke religions makes the country appear more religious, as they are filed as "not defined" rather than "no religion."
AFA President Kylie Sturgess told the Sydney Morning Herald she and her husband were among the 64,390 Australians who registered as a Jedi in the last census in 2011.
Five years later she warned the nearly 15-year-old joke could lead to improper representation for atheists.
"People shouldn't waste their answer," she said. "Answering the religion question thoughtfully and honestly matters because it benefits all Australians when decisions on how to spend taxpayer dollars are made on sound data that accurately reflects modern-day Australia."
F polls and gov’t intrusion into one’s personal space, in general.
JEDI-ISM has been a religion since the first STAR WARS movie. Members study characters extensively, spend large amounts of money duplicating their costumes, and attend conventions pretending to be like them.
JEDI-ISM is a religion, just like ELVIS PRESLEY-ISM.
Atheists: “There is no God and I hate him!”
Papa Francis is certainly no Jedi....Robes or not.
I was gonna go with they can be real douchebags at times. It’s like militant atheist are terrified that they won’t be seen as mainstream and tolerated/accepted unless religion is suppressed.
I’ve heard something similar to that from several atheists over the years. I’ve also heard atheists tell people to go to he’ll.
Cathar.
Forget Jedi. Join the Sith religion.
Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies.
May you be touched by his noodly appendage. ;)
Not much of a point. I’ve heard innumerable Christians tell someone to go F themselves, knowing it to be physically impossible.
“Five years later she warned the nearly 15-year-old joke could lead to improper representation for atheists.”
Proper representation for atheists is a 3 year old child with early onset ADHD born to an unwed mother, selected from the lowest income section of the capital city.
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